Baptiste, a knife-wielding, self-proclaimed karate expert with a drive to slash the eyes from faces in adverts (including, in one instance, those on a placard for Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha), accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover’s (Pierre Clémenti’s) suitcase: an amalgam of clippings, patterns, and maps of Paris that points to a vastly unsettling labyrinth replete with signs and intimations whose menacing endgame remains all too unclear.

Gorgeously shot by the master cinematographer William Lubtchansky, Le Pont du Nord is a freewheeling, powerful experience whose hypnotic rhythm and ominous undercurrents resolve into a frightening and exhilarating portrait of post-revolutionary, early-’80s Paris – and in turn form a prime example of Rivette’s uncanny, occult cinema.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Jacques Rivette’s rare and essential feature Le Pont du Nord on DVD and, for the first time anywhere in the world, on Blu-ray.